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SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

By : Neil Smyth
Book Image

SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Do you want to create iOS apps with SwiftUI, Xcode 12, and Swift 5.3, and want to publish it on the app store? This book helps you achieve these skills with a step-by-step approach. This course first walks you through the steps necessary to set up an iOS development environment together and introduces Swift Playgrounds to learn and experiment with Swift—specifically, the Swift 5.3 programming language. After establishing key concepts of SwiftUI and project architecture, this course provides a guided tour of Xcode in SwiftUI development mode. The book also covers the creation of custom SwiftUI views and explains how these views are combined to create user interface layouts, including the use of stacks, frames, and forms. One of the more important skills you’ll learn is how to integrate SwiftUI views into existing UIKit-based projects and explain the integration of UIKit code into SwiftUI. Finally, the book explains how to package up a completed app and upload it to the app store for publication. Along the way, the topics covered in the book are put into practice through detailed tutorials, the source code for which is also available for download. By the end of this course, you will be able to build your own apps for iOS 14 using SwiftUI and publish it on the app store. The code files for the book can be found here: https://www.ebookfrenzy.com/retail/swiftui-ios14/
Table of Contents (56 chapters)
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Index

47.3 Widget Configuration Types

When creating a widget, the choice needs to be made as to whether it should be created using the static or intent configuration model. These two options can be summarized as follows:

Intent Configuration – Used when it makes sense for the user to be able to configure aspects of the widget. For example, allowing the user to select the news publications from which headlines are to be displayed within the widget.

Static Configuration – Used when the widget does not have any user configurable properties.

When the Intent Configuration option is used, the configuration options to be presented to the user are declared within a SiriKit intent definition file.

The following is an example widget entry containing a static configuration designed to support both small and medium size families:

@main

struct SimpleWidget: Widget {

    private let kind: String = "SimpleWidget"

 ...